Node Red flow setting a Z-Wave parameter not working

I’m stumped by this one – I’m trying to set a Z-wave parameter from a Node Red flow, and it isn’t working. The thing is, setting a different parameter works fine, and I can set the parameter that doesn’t work in the flow with the Z-Wave integration with no problems. The node that isn’t working is just a copy of one of the working ones with the parameter number, value, and length changed.

What’s even stranger is that I don’t see anything in the OZW logs when this flow runs. The working flow shows up in the OZW log as expected. But I see the correct parameters set in the debug window if I enable debugging on the nodes that aren’t working.

Has anyone run into this before?

The idea is to set a parameter based on the value of an input selector. There are two – one to set the LED mode, and one to set the color of the LED (this is an Aeotec Smart Switch 6). In the following screenshot, the big ugly switch is for the color selector - the outputs of that all work. The simple one to set the mode is the one that’s failing - but as you can see from the timestamps it is running.

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Just in case anyone else runs into this, I found the solution today. It turns out that if the parameter value is configured as a list item, you have to use the label configured in openzwave, not the integer value. Personally, I think this is stupid, since the vendor documentation always lists the integer values and you can’t cut-n-paste the value from the integration settings page, but that’s just me. I ended up pulling the values straight from the openzwave XML files.

So this:

    <Value genre="config" index="81" label="Configure the state of the LED" max="1" min="0" size="1" type="list" units="" value="0">
      <Item label="The LED will follow the status (on/off) of its load. (Default)" value="0"/>
      <Item label="When the state of the Switch changes, the LED will follow the status (on/off) of its load, but the LED will turn off after 5 seconds." value="1"/>
      <Item label="Night Light Mode" value="2"/>
    </Value>

Turns into parameters for zwave.set_configuration_parameter of:

{
  "node_id":8,
  "parameter":81,
  "value":"When the state of the Switch changes, the LED will follow the status (on/off) of its load, but the LED will turn off after 5 seconds.",
  "size":1
}